The role of Public Development Banks in scaling up Sustainable Finance
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Overview of Africa’s Financial Sector: Long-term finance and capital markets
Expanding on the general overview of the financial sector in Africa, this second article focuses on the development of the capital markets and the recent initiatives to attract long-term capital to the continent. Capital markets in Africa are still in their infancy and mirror the economic development of the continent. However, the evolution over the last decade prior
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Report on the 11th Peer Review following the AADFI PSGRS Assessment mechanisms 2021
This report provides relevant information on the assessment results for compliance with the prudential guidelines and standards and the assessment results for rating on the basis of the development impact criteria for the 2021 Peer Review.
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Africa’s shift to funding sustainable power in local currencies: The opportunity for ECAs
Africa’s shift to funding sustainable power in local currencies: The opportunity for ECAs is Africa’s policy shift towards PPAs in local currencies an opportunity for ECAs to support the long-term sustainability of the energy sector? By Harald Hirschhofer, Senior Advisor at TCX , and Vivek Mittal, CEO of African Infrastructure Development Association.
Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks
This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth,
Mapping 500+ Development Banks: Qualification Criteria, Stylized Facts, and Development Trends
The present Second New Structural Economics (NSE) Development Financing Research Report was authored by a team of researchers from the NSE Development Financing research program and the Agence française de développement (AFD). The team is led by twoprincipal investigators—Jiajun XU, Executive Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, and Régis
IACPM paper on Bank interaction with DFI’s for the mobilisation of private capital for the SDG’s
Banks prefer that DFIs take a different economic position in a transaction structure rather than simply co-invest under the same terms and conditions as the bank. Specifically, they indicated a preference for the DFIs to do more to help mitigate local currency risk, and to find a way to work with state-owned enterprises
The Economic Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
The Covid-19 pandemic has generated shocks that have caused economic fluctuations globally, calling for an understanding of the behavior of macroeconomic variables. This study presents an early review of the macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Nigeria has been severely affected by the spread of Covid-19 and the associated sharp decline in oil
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Leveraging National Development Banks to Enhance Financing for Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure
This knowledge product builds on the main conclusions from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (the Alliance)policy brief on Enhancing the Role of National Development Banks in Supporting Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure,commissioned by FELICITY and developed in partnership with the Alliance.